Reader: You can't open TexMex in Colorado...

There's no shortage of Mexican restaurants in the Denver area -- and especially not in Aurora, where storefront taquerias and seafood spots seem to pop up every day on East Colfax Avenue and South Havana. But does Denver have enough TexMex restaurants? Not according to fans of Rusty Taco, a Texas-based chain named for one of its founders, not the state of its food, that opened its first Colorado outpost in a former Old School Burger location in Aurora last week. See also: Rusty Taco opens in Aurora

This is not the yellow cheese-laden fare that's a hallmark of old-style Tex Mex fare in town. The motto of the Rusty Taco crew: "Where tacos are the most important meal of the day." And among other things, the menu promises margaritas made with "cheap tequila and fresh lime juice," as well as "cheap beers, fancy beers."

Will Texas-style tacos work in metro Denver?

Says Justin:

You can't open TexMex in CO. Good luck with that.

Adds Valerie:

More Tex-Mex recommendations, please!

TexMex can't work in Colorado? Help Valerie out: Post your suggetions for TexMex in Colorado in the comments section below.

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.